Shoe.



DE ROY AUSTIN.'

' SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. 16.1912.

1,078,571 y)Patenteu'l Nov. 11, 1913.

fDEno laustria; or emana, NEBRASKA.

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Specication of'Let'ters Patent.

Patented Nov. 11, 1913.

Appnanon med :rauen-ym; 1912. serial No. 671,5so.

.To-all 'whom if may c'oncern.'

Be it known thatl, DEFROY 'AUs'rN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Omaha, in the county of Douglas. and State of Nebraska, have Ainvented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoes, of which the following is a specification. l I My invention relates to the manufacture of boot-s and shoes, and more particularly to the construction of shoeshavmg resilientV or cushion insoles. p It is the object of my invention to providein a shoe a resilient or cushioningI inr soledisposed'adjoining the ufoot and securely held in place without the use of paste, ce;

ment or special seams to secure it^ tothe leather insole, and in which the transverse strength of the cushionin material is made use of to increase the sta ility of the shoe.

A further'object of my invention is to provide in a shoe aneficient means for protecting the heel of the wearer fromy the protruding ends of tapfnails.

ln the accompanying drawings/Figure 1 is a side view, partially in vertical longitudinal section, of a shoe embodying my shown the resillent sheet 5 1s securely held invention, Fig. 2\ is a transverse vertical sectlonof the same, Fig. 3 -1s a slmllar view .showing a slight modification of the struc-v ture, F-1g. 4 vis a perspective vieviT Showing the bottom of the composite insole, and Fig. 5 is a detail transverse section showing anv other slight modification of the structure.

llncarrying out my invention l employ an upper l, an outsole 2, and a welt 3, all of ordinary construction and arrangement. rl`he insole, however, is a composite structure and comprises a sheet 4 of leather corresponding to the usual leather insole, a sheet 5 `offilorous resilient material such as felt disposed over the leather sheet, and a liningpiece 6 of soft material such as ldd leather disposed over the felt sheet. The edges of the toe and shank portions of the felt sheet are split so as to form two lips 7 and 8. 'lhe 4lower-"lip 7 is turned down around the outer edges of the leather insole and when the inseam 9 is made it is passed through the marriginal Vpart of the leather insole in the usual vway and' valso passes through the downturnedI-lip 7 of the felt insole so that said lip 11s-,1 secured between-the edge of the leather leand theinpperLL- Y e1 l rig-.piece .6` may be made coincit w1 eupper surface of the felt sheet passing through the lip 8, as shown in Flgs. lf2, and 4, or the lining-piece maybe made large enough to enable the edge portion thereof to be turned down and pass entirely around the lip 8 and adjoiri` the outer .side'of the lip 7 so as'to beI secured by the 1 ISeaIn'9 between the lip 7 and the upper, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5. When the edges of thelining-pieoe are thus secured by the inseam .the marginal seam 10 jmay bei omitted as shown in Fig. 3, or a similar seam 11 may be passed through the two thicknesses of thelining-piece and the lip 8, as shown in lFig.- 5. f A

in the completion of the heel portion of the shoe it is preferable that the tap-,nails 12 be not driven through the felt portion of the insole but shall terminate at the upper surface of the lower or leather part of the insole. l portion of the felt sheet may be turned up .as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and then turned down to the normal position shown to cover the ends of the nails and protect the heel of the wearer from them.

lt will be obvious that by the construction in position in the shoe; that the transverse strength of the'said sheet 5 is added to that of the leather 'part of the insole to increase the stability of the shoe, so that equal strength may be obtained with a lighter and less expensive leather insole than is usually employed; that the resilient sheet need not be secured in position by paste or cement and, being held in position entirely by means of the regular inseam, no special seaming operationV is necessary in securing it in position; and that the lip 8, by extending out over the inseam, forms a cushion for the extreme edges of the foot.

Now, having described my invention, what l claim and desire to secure by Letters Fatent is: i

Lln a shoe having an upper, a welt, a leather insole and aan-inseam` for securing them together, a sheet oflibrous resilient material disposed above the leather insole and having a lip extending between the upper and the margin of the leather insole,4

the inseam passing through said lip. 2. ln a shoe, a composite insole compris 1D0 a sheet of leather, a sheet of fibrous resillent material disposed over the leather 'sheet and having a marginal lip inclosing the edges of the leather sheet, and a lining In driving the said nails the heel i secured over the top of the brous resilient sheet, an upper, a welt, and an inseam passing through and securing together the upper, thp welt and all parts of the composite in- SO e.

3. 1n a shoe, 'an upper, a Welt, an insole, and an inseam passing through and securing them together, the insole comprising a sheet of leather, a sheet of felt disposed over the same and having the edges of the toe and shank portions thereof split to form two lips, the lower lip being turned down around the edges of the leather sheet and being traversed by the inseam, and a liningpiece disposed over the felt vsheet and having its marginal portion *secured to the upper lip thereof. v

4c. ln a shoe, an upper, a leather insole, a felt insole disposed over the leather insole and having marginal portions extending Lof/8,571

down around the edges of the leather insole, a covering secured over the felt insole, and a seam passing through the adjoining portions yof the felt insole, the leather insole and the upper to secure them together.

5. lln a shoe, an upper, a welt, a leather insole, a felt insole secured over the leather insole, `an inseam passing through and sey curing together the welt, the upper, and the toe and shank portions of the leather and felt insoles, and tap-nails extending through the leather insoleI only and having their inner ends covered by the felt insole.

rn testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two wit- D. 0. BABNELL, Wan B. BRAKE;

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